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Their perception was that we, we had a desperate shortage of staff |
Yeah. |
and we weren't gonna provide them with the level of service that |
They got the |
They got the feeling that we were on the ropes and I, I mean if |
even if we are we should we should be managing that internally. |
No. |
No. |
What I,w w what we've done is we've assured them that we will provide the level of service that they've had previously and if need be |
we will buy staff in, |
Yeah. |
agency staff or whatever, |
Yeah. |
to continue to provide them with that service. |
Yeah. |
Okay? |
Yeah. |
Aye actually you do need |
That's an assurance that we've given them. |
Yes. |
A actually that rumour though hasn't come from us so the comment about whingeing was wrong. |
I'm not bothered about where it comes from. |
No. |
But it wasn't but you see it's the fact that Ian 's gone. |
R Bob 's gone. |
Brian 's gone. |
Robert 's gone. |
All within the past about eighteen months and they were all from P T fro from Regional Railways P T type jobs. |
Tha that's what's happened. |
Fine. |
They've picked up their own vibes. |
Don't take it negatively. |
Mm. |
The, the, the positive message is that |
Yeah. |
we've given them assurance that we will provide the level of service |
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Good. |
and we need to do it. |
Mm. |
The second thing is that erm with regard to future pro projects, Regional Railways have decreed, that we will only get work through competitive tender. |
No. |
Regional Railways North East Investment have decreed that we will only get work |
Yeah. |
on competitive tender. |
Okay. |
I understood it was Regional Railways |
It was those |
Headquarters who'd decreed that we would only get work by |
Yeah. |
I can't see |
It's it's |
I |
I |
Right. |
Okay. |
I I I'll I'll check that |
Can you? |
with Richard then and see |
Yeah. |
whether or not we're gonna be in the same situation on erm |
on maintenance jobs. |
Yeah. |
I see this as a positive element because here for once the client's gonna have to sit down and produce a specification |
Put down remit. |
and a remit. |
Right. |
I don't think they've realized |
And then we will go into bat on a fixed price and we'll charge him that, whatever. |
And if there's a variation order we will issue a variation order |
And we will become |
variation. |
we will become more professional |
Correct. |
on those jobs. |
And it will cost him more money administrating. |
Er that |
doesn't matter i it, it, it, it will |
be a good exercise for us t to take advantage over this er |
I've warned them .? |
Yeah. |
I I, what I would say cos we will be competing against Birmingham and Glasgow. |
Right? |
We retain the work that we've already got with them. |
Okay? |
And th then we've got a lot of work at the moment which we'll retain. |
The future projects we're gonna have to obtain competitively. |
So we're te we're team briefing that as well? |
Yes. |
Yes. |
Are we team briefing it North East, or the whole of Regional Railways? |
Let's say that we have been, we've been |
Stick with North East |
advised by the New Works Manager of Regional Railways North East that work from him |
Mm. |
Will be |
w will be o only obtained via competitive |
We'll have to compete for . |
tender. |
Now the relevant point about briefing this is a you've mentioned Glasgow and Birmingham that I already knew about, that we're tendering against. |